Re: creating a script module / libs in CVS

[Gerard van Enk]

Kees Jongenburger wrote:

The main disadvantage is I suppose that it doesn't 'feel right' to check
external products in CVS. and that all kind of stuff should also be
checked in because they must be distributed together or something like
that.

A big -1 for this.....(large) binary files do not belong in cvs, because
 cvs isn't good at handling these files.

Are you talking form experiance?

Both experience and theory....

I have been doing that for ages.. (just co speeltuin/keesj)
or wiab where mmbase is "just an other" .jar we need

It *can* be done, but for every new jar, cvs creates a whole new file on the cvs-server, instead of just storing the latest version and the differences. So if the jars are big, alot of storage is needed.

for site created a long time ago like worldpressphoto the hole site + "mmbase application 1.0" + orion + mmbase sources are in CVS (that's the only way to be able to maintain the old stuff)

as long as you add the binaries as binaries "-kb" the "problem" doesn't exist IMHO

Another idea good be to put these jars somewhere on mmbase.org, but this
could give some licensing problems, because iirc the idea was to start
using the j2ee package for developing, this may not be redistributed.

I said I would look into that or have you already?

From the license agreement of the j2ee package:

"2. RESTRICTIONS. Software is confidential and copyrighted. Title to Software and all associated intellectual property rights is retained by Sun and/or its licensors. Except as specifically authorized in any Supplemental License Terms, you may not make copies of Software, other than a single copy of Software for archival purposes."

So I don't think it's ok to put this jar on mmbase.org for download.

I haven't followed the java 1.3 1.4 diffs but in 1.4 pooling datasources is standard for 1.2 you can download the jdbc-std-ext and there are "open-source" pooling datasources
What can be in cvs or on the mmbase web-site?

If we use seperate package like we do now, it's not a problem I think and if we try to find alternatives for the sun-packages it won't be a problem.

Gerard

Gerard